Once Upon a Time VIII Reading Challenge

Once Upon a Time VIII Reading Challenge – 3/21/14 – 6/21/14

I can’t tell you how much I’ve been looking forward to this reading challenge this year.    It’s become a sign of Spring for me, and with the general suckitude of winter this year, I’ll admit, I’m really looking forward to anything having to do with Spring.   (Seriously.    I have never done this much garden planning […]

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Evenstar Shawl

Knitting Notes

So on the heels of the Flicker socks, I finished off the Risata yarn with a few more hexipuffs.    The nice thing about these ones is they’re different than my regular color palette, so should lend some nice contrast. After that, I was a little bit of loose ends, because I was waiting for

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Flicker Socks

Knitting Notes

Pattern: Flicker Socks by Cookie AYarn: Knitpicks Risata in the Fairy Tale colorwayNeedles: Size 1.5 DPNs I’d gotten this pattern in a swap a while ago, and I’d also been holding onto this yarn for a while (quite a while – it’s discontinued), so they seemed a like a natural fit for a quick project.

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Flicker Socks

Knitting Notes

Flicker sock #1 is done! I forget how much I like making socks.    There’s just something so enjoyable about turning a heel.      And they’re such a nice, discreet size.    Even if the pattern is a bit of a slog, it never seems like it’s going to keep going on forever.    (BTW, this pattern is not

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Flicker socks

Knitting Notes

For my next project, I’ve cast on Cookie A’s Flicker socks (a pattern I was given in a long ago swap) with my Knit Picks Risata yarn, in the Fairytale Colorway.     Yet another yarn in my stash that turns out to discontinued.   I didn’t realize my stash was getting so old.

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Fino scarf

Knitting Notes

Pattern: Fino Scarf by Jocelyn TunneyYarn: Schaffer Audrey in the Dian Fossey colorwayNeedles: size 6 circs I more or less used this pattern as a base.    I added a provisional cast on, but ended up using a three needle bind off to finish it off, because it was just easier.   I suppose grafting would have

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